Cocoon Books

2004-05-14 Thread Robert Clarke
Hi I was wandering if anyone was working on a Cocoon Book that will deal with the vast range of new features it has aquired over it's 2.1 release. Whilst I am capable of individually understanding Cforms, Flow and JXTemplates the problem seems to be knowing exactly how to design and structure vario

Cocoon books

2003-10-01 Thread Ralph Goers
Now that 2.1 is released I am wondering if any of the experts here will have new books out soon. Ralph Goers Sr. Software Engineer, Software Architecture Digital Insight Corporation web: www.digitalinsight.com voice: 818-878-6020 fax: 818-878-7555 The fine print: this email may contain confidenti

Re: Cocoon Books

2004-05-14 Thread Thorsten Scherler
Robert Clarke wrote: Hi I was wandering if anyone was working on a Cocoon Book that will deal with the vast range of new features it has aquired over it's 2.1 release. Whilst I am capable of individually understanding Cforms, Flow and JXTemplates the problem seems to be knowing exactly how to desi

Re: Cocoon Books

2004-05-14 Thread Alex McLintock
..and I think it wouldn't be a waste of time for the author (2 sold books allready ;-)). Perhaps the authors of the first Cocoon books could tell us whether they got any new business from writing the books? That might encourage more people to wri

RE: Cocoon Books

2004-05-14 Thread Matthew Langham
> Perhaps the authors of the first Cocoon books could tell us > whether they got any new business from writing the books? > That might encourage more people to write Cocoon books. > I hear the call :-) Ok, first thing to say is that the IT book market is still a mess at the momen

Re: Cocoon Books

2004-05-14 Thread Michael Wolf
Strongly agree! Would be nice seeing a book that deals with 2.1 new features! ...and I think it wouldn't be a waste of time for the author (2 sold books allready ;-)). Make it 3! Michael Wolf - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: Cocoon Books

2004-05-14 Thread Thorsten Scherler
Matthew Langham wrote: [...] This means that some books on a particular subject have fallen by the wayside. Our Cocoon book is an example. Our last information from the publisher was that there are no plans to do a new version - even though we may perhaps want to. That is quite a pitty! It is a

Re: Cocoon Books

2004-05-14 Thread Thorsten Scherler
Matthew Langham wrote: [...] This means that some books on a particular subject have fallen by the wayside. Our Cocoon book is an example. Our last information from the publisher was that there are no plans to do a new version - even though we may perhaps want to. That is a shame! This book coul

RE: Cocoon Books

2004-05-14 Thread Derek Hohls
EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004/05/14 01:16:07 PM >>> > Perhaps the authors of the first Cocoon books could tell us > whether they got any new business from writing the books? > That might encourage more people to write Cocoon books. > I hear the call :-) Ok, first thing to say is t

Re: Cocoon Books

2004-05-14 Thread Christian Rosenberger
Hohls [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 1:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Cocoon Books Matthew Obviously have been through the whole process you are in the best position to understand this issue. Is there not some room for an "intemediate" approach - a *series* o

RE: Cocoon Books

2004-05-14 Thread Rick Wayne
I'm disappointed to hear that the tech-book market still offers so little buck for all the bang you have to put into it. At one time I'd thought about writing a book on Cocoon, mostly because I thought one was needed, but while I dithered, others beat me to it -- thankfully! (And a good job you did

RE: Cocoon Books

2004-05-14 Thread Ralph Goers
You meant to say "we tech-heads ain't exactly famous", right? -Original Message- From: Rick Wayne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 8:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Cocoon Books Now, this next bit will sound patronizing, so please forgive

Re: Cocoon books

2003-10-01 Thread Antonio Gallardo
Ralph Goers dijo: > Now that 2.1 is released I am wondering if any of the experts here will > have new books out soon. :-D Antonio Gallardo. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

RE: Cocoon Books

2004-05-14 Thread Gould, Troy (ELS)
Funny. I work for one of the larger publishers, and we are using cocoon on more than a few projects. -Original Message- From: Matthew Langham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 6:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Cocoon Books > Perhaps the authors of

RE: Cocoon Books

2004-05-14 Thread David Crossley
Derek Hohls wrote: > Matthew > > Obviously have been through the whole process you are in > the best position to understand this issue. > > Is there not some room for an "intemediate" approach - > a *series* of articles on key topics published in on-line > magazines - reasonably well-researched

RE: Cocoon Books

2004-05-15 Thread Hugo Burm
:39 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Cocoon Books > > > For all german speaking folk on the list: > > http://www.galileocomputing.de/katalog/buecher/titel/gp/titelID-672 > > Published two weeks ago. Nearly 900 pages. You can read > hours/days/months in > it. >

RE: Cocoon Books

2004-05-16 Thread Matthew Langham
> > I'm disappointed to hear that the tech-book market still > offers so little buck for all the bang you have to put into > it. At one time I'd thought about writing a book on Cocoon, You can count on it taking 1 year to write a book in your spare time (i.e. you still work full-time). This me

RE: Cocoon Books

2004-05-16 Thread Derek Hohls
Well, not to pour cold water on that approach - it *can* work - but the best articles are usually "driven" by a single author. I'd be happy to help edit and raise issues of clarification etc - but some *one* needs to start the process... >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004/05/15 04:02:42 AM >>> Derek Ho

RE: Cocoon Books

2004-05-17 Thread gounis
On 15 May 2004, David Crossley wrote: > Derek Hohls wrote: > > Matthew > > > > Obviously have been through the whole process you are in > > the best position to understand this issue. > > > > Is there not some room for an "intemediate" approach - > > a *series* of articles on key topics publish